Richard Lawler

Who do you trust to handle the big questions about AI?

Does your minimalist phone need one more app?

As Comics Beat points out, 100 or so employees had until today to decide if they’ll move with the company out of New York City to Burbank, CA, the home of Marvel Studios and Disney. It was announced in July, but the actual move will take place next year, bringing the bits of the MCU closer together under new EIC Stephen Wacker, replacing C.B. Cebulski, who is moving to Japan to lead a manga push and become the editor of Asia originals. [Link: Don’t screw this up, Marvel | https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/975297/spider-man-brand-new-day-marvel-sony-xmen-doomsday | The Verge]

A 2025 lawsuit claiming TikTok violated the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act will now go to trial after Judge Cory Liu granted the state’s request for a partial summary judgment on Thursday. The state had argued that TikTok said it would remove content with drugs, gambling, or graphic injuries but instead designated it “hard to find,” and said a Restricted Mode setting filtered out content that was inappropriate for minors while employees internally acknowledged it didn’t work as well as advertised. [Link: Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature | https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/texas-judge-rules-tiktok-misled-users-child-safety-feature-2026-09-11/ | Reuters]

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Fraud, mischief, and Boingo Wireless.

Cook out.

In contrast to Threads, Bluesky’s active user growth has trailed off lately, and as it looks to expand its big tent, it’s making one part of the experience better: video. The maximum length of videos has gone from two minutes to 10 minutes, uploads should be 2-3x faster, and file sizes can be up to 300MB. To kick things off, the official account is featuring a few longer videos like this one. [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3mtwgs26j2c2d]

A pair of announcements from Anthropic today include the word that access to Claude Cowork on mobile and web interfaces has rolled out to all paid accounts, so you can keep an eye on what it’s doing for you in more places. Separately, the Google Workspace connectors for Claude now support sending emails in Gmail and managing files in Google Drive — more details here. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/778273589_17980259259118227_5377280649389143563_n.jpg?quality=90&strip=all]

And The Simpsons movie’s new name.